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Business Line: Kolkata: Friday, 07 November 2014.
The
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and
Justice, has urged some of the Kolkata-based public sector enterprises to be
more responsive to RTI queries.
According to
EM Sudarsana Nachiappan, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, the
members met the Chairmen of various PSUs and government entities such as Coal
India Ltd (CIL), National Insurance Company Ltd, Kolkata Port Trust and
Allahabad Bank, among others.
“We have
urged these various PSU and public enterprises to respond to RTI applications.
The organisations have also been suggested to put up more information on their
websites so as to reduce the quantum of queries and applications,” he told
reporters during a press conference on Thursday.
The members
pointed out that Allahabad Bank has said that it is mulling a separate website
through which it will cater specifically to address RTI queries and share
public information. Such a website is currently in the testing stage and is
likely to be start very soon, he said.
Coal India on
its part too has agreed to have such a website and said it was exploring
similar options.
The
committee, Nachiappan said, has asked CIL to update information “regularly” on
its website so that coal users do not get worried about the impact of he
Supreme Court rulings on the cancellation of coal blocks.
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